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3-Heights(TM) PDF Validator from PDF-Tools AG. +
3DHOP is an open-source JavaScript framework for the visualization of 3D models in a standard web page. +
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7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio, and encryption and fixity check capabilities +
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The Auditing Control Environment is a mature set of software designed to help libraries and archives prove their holdings are intact and trustworthy. +
Tools for the creation of disk images, used in conjunction with the AFF open and extensible file format to store disk images and associated metadata. +
The Advanced Forensics Format (AFF) and AFF Library (AFFLIB) are a joint development project of Simson L. +
ANTS runs on a Windows desktop and is designed to package digital records with contextual metadata and transfer them to an institutional archives. +
Assessing Institutional Digital Assets: Self-assessment tool for describing institutional readiness and capabilities for digital asset management and digital preservation +
Generating and resolving ARK identifiers for resources in [[Omeka]] +
Web-based tool that supports accessioning, arrangement and description, and access to archival finding aids +
Fixity monitoring for digital collections +
Media dump software and disc image manager +
This page gives information on AccessData Decryption Tools. +
A collection of scripts to automatically convert MS Access files to the SIARD format. +
A commercial image editor with a metadata module (Organizer). +
Advanced Renamer is a program for renaming multiple files and folders at once. By configuring renaming methods the names can be manipulated in various ways. +
Amazon Cloud is an internet-based storage location designed to hold files indefinitely. +
w3act is an annotation and curation tool for web archives +
JAVA PDF library for creation, manipulation, validation and content extraction of PDF documents +
The Apache POI Project's mission is to create and maintain Java APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon the Office Open XML standards (OOXML) and Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format (OLE2). +
Java based tool for identifying file formats using signatures and extracting metadata and text content from documents. +
Overview of folder trees with fine diagrams +
Archive-It is the leading web archiving service for collecting and accessing cultural heritage on the web. It is a service provided by the Internet Archive. +
BagIt API for Perl +
ArchiveBox is an open source tool that lets organizations & individuals archive both public & private web content while retaining control over their data. +
ArchiveFacebook is a Firefox extension which allows individuals to save and manage Facebook web content. +
An online tool which evaluates if a website will be archived correctly by web archives, such as the Internet Archive +
Archivematica is a digital preservation system that automates the process of preparing digital objects for ingest into a repository and an access system +
ArchivesSpace is the next-generation web-based archives information management system, designed by archivists and supported by diverse archival repositories. +
An open source archival data management system to provide broad, integrated support for the management of archives +
Archon automatically publishes archival descriptive information and digital archival objects in a user-friendly website. +
ARK identifiers generator in python +
A tool for capturing contextual data produced during the creative process of artists and designers while working on a computer. +
AsTiffTagViewer is a TIFF Tag Viewer application. +
To make audio and its interpretations more discoverable and usable by extending the use of the newest IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) standard for audio with the development of the AudiAnnotate web application, documented workflows and workshops that will facilitate the use of existing best-of-breed, open source tools for audio annotation
(Sonic Visualiser), for public code and document repositories (GitHub), and audio presentation (Universal Viewer) to produce, publish, and sustain shareable W3C Web Annotations for individual and collaborative audio projects. +
This tool converts audio and video files to WAV format. +
Open source, free digital forensics tool +
Graphical interface to the command line digital investigation tools in The Sleuth Kit +
AVCC is an open source application that enables collaborative, efficient item-level cataloging of audiovisual collections. +
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BAT is a Perl package for processing Internet Archive ARC, DAT and CDX file format. +
BCWipe data wiping software enables you to permanently delete selected files so that they can never be recovered or undeleted. +
BagIt Library is a Java software library that supports the creation, manipulation and validation of bags. +
BWF MetaEdit permits embedding, validating, and exporting of metadata in Broadcast WAVE Format (BWF) files. +
BagIt transfer Utilities are a collection of tools developed for the purpose of validation and transfer of bags. +
The BitCurator Environment is an Ubuntu Linux distribution geared to the needs of archivists and librarians. It includes a suite of open source digital forensics and data analysis tools to help collecting institutions process born-digital materials. +
Command Line Interface (CLI) to export METS/ALTO documents to other formats. +
From GitHub (https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler):
Brozzler is a distributed web crawler that uses a real browser (Chrome or Chromium) to fetch pages and embedded URLs and to extract links.
Brozzler is designed to work in conjunction with warcprox for web archiving. +
Siegfried-based characterization of directories and disk images +
Bulk Rename Utility is a free file renaming software for Windows. Bulk Rename Utility allows you to easily rename files and entire folders based upon extremely flexible criteria. +
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CASTOR, which stands for the CERN Advanced STORage manager, is a hierarchical storage management (HSM) system developed at CERN used to store physics production files and user files. +
Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode based on a textual description of the CD contents. +
CDS Convert is a suite of tools that allow conversion of documents, presentations and images between different software formats. +
CINCH (Capture INgest and CHecksum Tool) facilitates batch downloading and ingest of Internet-accessible documents and/or images to a central repository. +
The Cost Model for Digital Preservation (CDMP) is a tool that calculates the present and future costs of three sets of activities associated with preservation of digital collections. +
cRunch provides an infrastructure for exploratory data analysis with the statistical programming language and environment R +
Validation of CSV files against user-defined schema +
A Microsoft Access form to export all database tables to interoperable CSV files. +
CoreTrustSeal offers to any interested data repository, certification based on the DSA–WDS Core Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements catalogue and procedures +
Common Workflow Language (CWL) is an open standard for describing how to run command line tools and connect them to create workflows. +
An e-book management tool, including viewer, migration, and file conversion features among others. +
an online backup service that automatically backs up documents, e-mails, music, photos, and settings. Info gathered early March 2013. +
Supports creation of new preservation policies as well as planning and watch activities. +
Catalyst is a solution for the creation of better inventories and the management of digitization workflows. +
catdoc is a program that reads one or more Microsoft Word files and outputs text to standard output. +
a tool to validate TIFF files against given configuration profile +
Fast hashing tool using a GUI interface +
"Chronopolis digital preservation network provides services for the long-term preservation and curation of America's digital holdings" +
cksum computes a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) checksum for each given file, or standard input if none are given +
Clipper is a free open-source web application enabling researchers to create and share virtual-clips without altering the original media files +
Cloc (Count Lines of Code) serves not only to count the lines of Code,but also guesses the programming language, thus can be used to identify files. It is a command line tool which is easy to use. +
CloneCD is the perfect tool to make backup copies of your music and data CDs, regardless of copy protection. +
CloudCompare is a tool for editing and processing 3D point clouds and triangular meshes. +
CollectiveAccess is web-based software to catalogue, manage, and publish museum and archival collections. +
The UVa Library's Collectus digital object collector tool allows users to to collect image or text objects from a repository. +
ContextMiner is a framework to collect, analyze, and present the contextual information along with the data. +
A GUI for ImageMagick supporting mass operations +
A calculator to analyze the Cost of Inaction of not digitizing/preserving audiovisual assets +
cp copies files (or, optionally, directories). Part of GNU coreutils. +
A script to scan media very quickly to find out what kind of content it contains +
Cryptcat is a lightweight version of netcat with integrated transport encryption capabilities. +
With a simple click of the mouse, you can create visually compelling clips and quotes of web content that are easily embedded in blog posts, email, forums, and websites. +
Curator's Workbench is a tool that automates and streamlines the process of preparing collections of digital materials for submission to a repository +
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Software Kit creates a network of repositories that share the infrastructure services necessary to process and provide access to digital content. +
A digital preservation software application designed as a dark archive to service consortial and institutional preservation repositories a multi-user environment type. DAITSS is considered to be a first-party system. +
Migration to Intermediate XML for Electronic Data. +
Provides both a GUI and a command-line interface for packaging files and uploading them to remote repositories. +
DBPTK Developer - library and command-line tool for exection of database preservation actions +
"The goal of the DCAPE project is to build a distributed production preservation environment
that meets the needs of archival repositories for trusted archival preservation services." (Note: This is a work in progress, see notes for more information) +
Browser-based viewer for digital objects +
Accompanies ingest process from donor to archive, logs process steps. +
DLCM is an archiving solution based on the OAIS model developed in Java by Swiss universities. It is also the technological stack of the OLOS service. +
Provides a single dashboard view of how various departments contribute to RDM activities and how an institution is performing in terms of its compliance with policies +
dBpoweramp Music Converter (dMC) is an audio conversion tool. +
DMPTool is an online service to enable researchers to create data management plans now required by many funding agencies, and to receive tailored institutional guidance to help them in the process. +
A comprehensive toolkit to help practitioners and middle managers build business cases to fund digital preservation activities. +
A maturity modelling tool that has been designed to enable rapid benchmarking of an organization's digital preservation capability. +
Maturity / gap analysis model for digital preservation +
A TIFF validity checker +
DRAMBORA offers a quantifiable insight into the severity of risks faced by repositories right now, and an effective means for reporting these. +
DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) is a software tool developed to perform automated batch identification of file formats. +
The DPSP is a collection of four software applications which support the goal of digital preservation. +
DSpace is an institutional repository system which enables easy deposit, preservation, and access for all types of digital content. +
The DUMPBIN utility, which is provided with the 32-bit version of Microsoft Visual C++, combines the abilities of the LINK, LIB, and EXEHDR utilities. +
DV Analyzer is a technical quality control and reporting tool that examines DV streams in order to report errors in the tape-to-file transfer process. +
DVRescue is archivist-made software that supports data migration from DV tapes into digital files suitable for long-term preservation. +
Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. +
The Data Asset Framework (formerly the Data Audit Framework) provides organisations with the means to identify, locate, describe and assess how they are managing their research data assets. +
A storage broker and front end for archiving research data that is no longer active but that does not have a need for open publication +
DataCite works with data centres to assign persistent identifiers to datasets using the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) infrastructure. +
DataFlow is a two-stage data management infrastructure that is designed to allow researchers to work with, annotate, publish, and permanently store research data. +
suite of tools "designed to assist with Computer Forensics, Information Auditing, Information Security and Data Recovery" +
DataStage is a flexible data storage system that provides controlled access, secure backup, and the ability to transfer selected files to a more permanent archiving facility. +
The Dataverse is an open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore and analyze research data. +
Enables conversion between database formats or dumping from live database systems for the purposes of preservation. +
Framework for packaging the database Representation Information and pre-configured user-friendly access. Different combinations of Content Data Objects are supported by an automated deployment mechanism. Enables access to the archived databases in the archive reading room for non-technical users. +
dc3dd is a patched version of GNU dd with a number of features useful for computer forensics. +
This page gives information on using the dd Unix command. +
Intended for preserving web sites from the back-end, this is a database-to-XML curation tool. +
The Dependency Discovery Tool searches through binary office files (.doc, .xls and .ppt) and tries to find any documents or files that are linked to the document. +
The detox utility renames files to make them easier to work with under Unix and Unix-like operating systems. +
A collaborative document which non-developers can adapt to record QA methods using built-in browser developer tools. +
DiPS (OAIS compliant '''Di'''gital '''P'''reservation '''S'''olution) +
Digital Intelligence Forensic Software +
A toolset for developing standards compliant digital preservation management documentation on an array of topics +
A Policy Framework template to help organizations develop a high-level policy document that explicitly states the scope, purpose, objectives, operating principles, and context of the organization's digital curation and preservation program. +
Digital Preservation Recorder (DPR) is free and open source software developed by the National Archives of Australia to aid in the long term preservation of digital records. +
Dioscuri is a computer hardware emulator, specifically designed to be used as part of a digital preservation strategy. +
A universal metadata extractor +
Show disk usage, directory printer, find duplicate files, rename files, show file CRC and maintain your files - all in 1 tool +
Website to browse and search vintage computer files from archive.org +
In Disk Utility in Mac OS X 10. +
Disk2FDI is a professional disk imaging software designed to create binary images of floppy disks to the Formatted Disk Image (FDI) file format, as well as sector-based standard formats. +
Identify floppy disk formats from kryoflux stream files +
DiskView shows you a graphical map of your disk, allowing you to determine where a file is located or, by clicking on a cluster, seeing which file occupies it. +
Tool for detecting the content format of a disk or disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and boot codes. +
djatoka is open source Java software that builds upon a rich set of APIs and libraries to provide a service framework for the dynamic dissemination of JPEG 2000 image files. +
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) document conversion tools make the exchange and use of biomedical library electronic information easier for librarians, library users, and the general public +
docuteam cosmos is a comprehensive, modular software solution for the operation of digital long-term archives based on the OAIS standard ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Archival_Information_System Open Archival Information System, ISO 14721:2012]). +
Creates and edits SIPs +
Open source file manager with two panels side by side +
DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. +
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. This means that any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, phones and even the Dropbox website. Dropbox also makes it super easy to share with others, whether you're a student or professional, parent or grandparent. Even if you accidentally spill a latte on your laptop, have no fear! You can relax knowing that Dropbox always has you covered, and none of your stuff will ever be lost. +
Data Accessioner provides a graphical user interface to aid in migrating data from physical media to a dedicated file server, documenting the process and using MD5 checksums to identify any errors introduced in transfer. +
DuraCloud is a hosted service that provides a centralised interface for organizations interested in using cloud storage as a part of their digital archiving and preservation programs. +
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EMET is a stand-alone tool designed to extract metadata embedded in JPEG and TIFF files. +
ePADD is a software package developed by Stanford University's Special Collections & University Archives that supports archival processes around the appraisal, ingest, processing, discovery, and delivery of email archives. +
EPrints is an open access digital repository software, which is intended to create a highly configurable web-based repository. +
EXE Explorer reads and displays executable file properties and structure. +
Extract EXIF data and normalise it to DC XML. +
Easy CD-DA Extractor is CD Ripper, Music Converter, Audio Converter, Metadata Editor, and CD/DVD burning software. +
Tool suite to manage digital content in multiple repository systems. +
Converts proprietary emails to standard portable formats +
Embedding Repositories Self-Assessment Tool is comprised of a series of questions designed to quantify the degree that a digital repository is ‘embedded’ within its institution – the extent to which both the organisation's research and its administrative culture recognise the repository’s value and take full advantage of its capacity. +
EnCase Forensic (OpenText) +
EnCase eDiscovery is the market leading e-discovery software that enables more efficient business process and significantly reduces legal risk and cost with a judicially accepted solution that provides everything from legal hold to first pass review and is scalable, defensible, and repeatable. +
Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. +
Exact Audio Copy is an audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives on Windows only. +
Explore2fs is a GUI explorer tool for accessing ext2 and ext3 filesystems. +
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bootable CD with Linux and forensic tools +
Device Side Data's FC5025 USB 5.25" floppy controller plugs into any computer's USB port and enables you to attach a 5.25" floppy drive. +
bootable CD with Linux and forensic tools +
FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. +
A PRONOM based, command line, file format identification tool written in Python +
FITS allows data curators to identify, validate, and extract technical metadata for the objects in their digital repository. +
Forensic Toolkit (AccessData) +
Fedora provides the back-end foundation for digital repository systems responsible for managing and preserving all types of digital content. +
The File Analyzer is a general purpose desktop (and command line) tool designed to automate simple, file-based operations. The File Analyzer assembles a toolkit of tasks a user can perform. The tasks that have been written into the File Analyzer code base have been optimized for use by libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions. +
Perl API to analyze and handle droid (PRONOM) signatures +
FileAlyzer allows a basic analysis of files (showing file properties and file contents in hex dump form) and is able to interpret common file contents like resources structures (like text, graphics, HTML, media and PE). +
FileTrove indexes files and creates metadata from them. The single binary application walks a directory tree and identifies all regular files by type with Siegfried. +
Windows utility for verifying file contents +
Filedriller walks a directory tree and identifies all regular files, creates hash sums and checks for files in the NSRL. Still in Beta. +
Filzip offers full support (add and extract) support for ZIP (including Quake III's PK3), BH (BlakHole), CAB (Microsoft Cabinet), JAR (JavaARchive), LHA (LZH), TARand GZIP(TAR. +
Find It! Keep It! is a tool to save and organise web content. +
This is the home page for the open source implementation of the file(1) command that ships with every free operating system (OpenBSD, Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, etc. +
Fixi is a command-line utility that indexes, verifies, and updates checksum information for collections of files. +
fixes some issues in (potentially) baseline tiffs, as an example, invalid datetime tags, wrong tiff tag order +
Fixity Pro is a desktop application for Windows and Mac that provides simple automated monitoring and reporting on the data integrity of your files that are stored on your computer, removable storage devices, and mounted network storage locations. Use Fixity Pro to schedule routine scans that will tell you if your files have been changed and if any files have been added, removed, or moved/renamed since the last scan that was performed. +
Compares two directory trees and flags up duplicates +
Foremost is a console program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures. +
A collection of utilities and libraries intended for forensic or forensic-related investigative use in a modern Microsoft Windows environment. +
It cuts and joins video streams without altering the codecs. +
Split-screen file manager with desirable extras +
XVI32 is a freeware hex editor running under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. +
Set of utilities to find and clean various forms of lint on a filesystem, such as duplicate files, empty directories, and bad file names. +
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GFI MailArchiver is an email archiving software that is the single solution source for your email management problems on Exchange Server. +
A customisable GUI for Tesseract +
GNU Diffutils is a package of several programs related to finding differences between files. +
GNU libextractor is a library used to extract meta data from files of arbitrary type. +
GetDataBack will recover your data if the hard drive's partition table, boot record, FAT/MFT or root directory are lost or damaged, data was lost due to a virus attack, the drive was formatted, fdisk has been run, a power failure has caused a system crash, files were lost due to a software failure, files were accidentally deleted. +
GetDriveInfo2 is a Win32 program that examines the optical and removable media drives currently mounted on a computer, and returns information about those devices (in the case of optical devices it also returns information about the any media currently mounted in the device). +
Extracts technical and embedded descriptive metadata from common multimedia file formats. +
Amazon Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. +
Google Cloud Storage allows users to store, access, and manage their data. +
A suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections +
gzip produces files with a .gz extension. gunzip can decompress files created by gzip, compress or pack +
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The HP Integrated Archive Platform (HP IAP) was a solution for the long-term archival and disposition of information. +
HTTrack2Arc is a tool that converts HTTrack crawls to ARC files, the file format used by the Internet Archive. +
Digital Evidence Laboratory specialists created the HashKeeper software in 1998 to expedite the analysis of electronic media by reducing the number of files to be analyzed during the course of an investigation. +
bootable CD with Linux and forensic tools +
Heritrix is an open-source web crawler, allowing users to target websites they wish to include in a collection and to harvest an instance of each site. +
The Rich Media Capture module (RMC), developed in the LiWA (Living Web Archives) project, is designed to enhance the capturing capabilities of the crawler, with regards to different multimedia content types. +
The Hex Workshop Hex Editor by BreakPoint Software is a complete set of hexadecimal development tools for Microsoft Windows 2000 and later. +
HoliRisk is a framework and online tool to support the development of a risk assessment based on principles from ISO31000. +
Hoppla is an archiving solution that combines back-up and fully automated migration services for data collections in small office environments. +
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i2 is a provider of intelligence and investigation management software for law enforcement, defense, national security and private sector organizations. +
IBM's Digital Asset Preservation Tool is a proof-of-concept demonstration of the Universal Virtual Computer solution that provides long-term access to JPEG and GIF87a files. +
ICA-AtoM allows organisations to create standards-based descriptions of their archival holdings and subsequently publish them to the Web. +
A set of APIs, tools and protocols for manipulating and providing interoperable access to digital images +
IIPImage is an advanced high-performance imaging server and client for web-based streamed remote visualization of ultra resolution scientific imagery. +
ILookPI provides a fully programmable IDE environment with customizable tool capabilities. +
IMAGE is a DOS application capable of generating either highly compressed or "flat" images for forensic analysis. +
IN-SPIRE Visual Document Analysis is powerful information visualization software developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. +
iRODS software was designed to allow curators utilising heterogeneous storage and computing facilities to define policies without being concerned with the technical detail of how the system implements those policies and without having to respond to changes in technical infrastructure. +
ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. +
ImageVerifier (IV for short) traverses a hierarchy of folders looking for image files to verify. It can verify TIFFs, JPEGs. PSDs, DNGs, and non-DNG raws (e.g., NEF, CR2). +
ImpactStory (previously Total-Impact) allows researchers and organisations to gather a wide range of impact metrics about multiple forms of scholarly output. +
InBoxer is a next generation email archiving, IM archiving, e-discovery, and policy management system. +
Index.dat Analyzer is a tool to view, examine and delete contents of index.dat files. +
InfinaDyne's forensic products are focused on government and law enforcement examining various types of media and intent on collecting evidence in a thorough, secure and trustworthy manner. +
ingestr is a command-line application that allows ingesting or copying data from any source into any destination database. +
Invenio is a free software suite enabling you to run your own digital library or document repository on the web. +
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, Windows 7. +
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JHOVE provides functions to perform format-specific identification, validation, and characterization of digital objects. +
The PAIRTREE LIBRARY is a software library that supports the mapping between identifiers and filepaths according to the Pairtree Specification. +
Simple JP2 file structure checker +
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KEA is an algorithm for extracting keyphrases from text documents. +
KEEP Emulation Framework (EF) allows users to view and interact with digital files that otherwise would require obsolete hardware and software. +
KOST-Val is an open source validator for different file formats and Submission Information Package (SIP). +
Benefits Analysis Toolkit guides users through a process of identifying, assessing, and communicating the benefits from investing resources in the curation and long-term preservation of research data. +
Karen's Directory Printer can print the name of every file on a drive, along with the file's size, date and time of last modification, and attributes (Read-Only, Hidden, System and Archive). +
PhraseRate is a program, developed by Keith Humphreys, for extracting a set of meaningful, attractive keywords and key phrases from a web page describing the content of that page. +
Kepler is a scientific workflow modelling and management system that enables users, regardless of programming experience, to set up data analysis pipelines. +
KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). +
The kopal Library for Retrieval and Ingest (koLibRI) represents a library of Java tools that have been developed for the interaction with the DIAS system of IBM within the kopal project. +
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LOCKSS software allows libraries to create preserved digital collections out of materials that would otherwise be accessible only through a licensed academic subscription. +
LabTrove is a blogging platform specifically designed for use in a research environment. +
Legacy Locker is a safe, secure repository for your vital digital property that lets you grant access to online assets for friends and loved ones in the event of loss, death, or disability. +
Converts document formats to RTF +
A tiered set of recommendations that help guide organizations in the planning and implementation of born-digital access provisions. +
Libewf is a library for support of the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF), it support both the SMART (EWF-S01) and EnCase (EWF-E01) format. +
This library can be used to classify files according to magic number tests. +
The Library of Congress Newspaper Viewer is a web application used to ingest and view digitized newspaper pages meeting the National Digital Newspaper Program specification. +
An office suite with command line options for PDF/A conversions +
libsafe allows the organizations to create a full OAIS compliant Archive, including active and passive digital preservation workflows and is particularly suited for master image files of digitizing processes. +
This is an implementation for libsharedmime. +
Software for processing, enhancing and converting cultural heritage into digital cultural heritage +
Lingfo provides a library for developers to use to extract information from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files. +
Linux-VServer provides virtualization for GNU/Linux systems. +
LosslessCut is a video editing application +
LuraDocument PDF Compressor is a document conversion engine. +
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Lightweight Windows Desktop application to create and check MD5 Digests for one or several files. +
MDB Viewer opens Microsoft Access 1997-2013 databases on your Macintosh, and views and exports all tables in Access databases. +
The METS API is a Java API designed to aid developers in the processing and assembly of METS Documents. +
METS-based system for displaying and navigating sets of page images or other multi-part digital objects. +
Python library for processing and outputting METS/PREMIS XML according to the Archivematica METS profile. +
MIXED (Migration to Intermediate XML for Electronic Data) is a web service that converts tabular data files such as spreadsheets and databases to the Standard Data Format for Preservation (SDFP), a supplier-independent XML format. +
MP3val is a small, high-speed, free software tool for checking MPEG audio files' integrity. +
mpg321 is a command-line mp3 player. mpg321 is used for frontends, as an mp3 player and as an mp3 to wave file decoder. +
MPP Viewer is a viewer for Microsoft Project files +
A movie player that runs on many systems, supports a wide range of formats and supports a wide range of output drivers +
MRU-Blaster is a program made to do one large task - detect and clean MRU (most recently used) lists on your computer. +
The MSIL Disassembler is a companion tool to the MSIL Assembler (Ilasm. +
Extract Emails from many kinds of Mailbox formats +
Unifies your private emails into one searchable, platform-independent repository +
Matchbox: Duplicate detection tool for digital document collections. +
Free Tools [See specifically Foresnic Tools] +
md5deep is a set of programs to compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, Tiger, or Whirlpool message digests on an arbitrary number of files. hashdeep is a program to compute, match, and <em>audit</em> hashsets. +
md5sum computes a 128-bit checksum (or fingerprint or message-digest) for each specified file. +
MD5summer is an application for Microsoft Windows 9x, NT, ME, 2000 and XP which generates and verifies md5 checksums. +
MediaConch is a file validation software. +
Mendeley is a combination web service and desktop application that allows users to create, manage, and share collections of references. +
Merritt is a cost-effective repository service from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that lets the UC community manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. +
A tool for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering, texturing, converting, and editing 3D triangular meshes. +
Metadata Extraction Tool automatically extracts a limited set of metadata from the headers of digital files. +
The Metadata Interrogator is a standalone, offline GUI tool for extracting and analysing metadata from a wide variety of file formats. +
A simple tool for creating new CSV and HTML reports based on the metadata files generated by the Data Accessioner +
Freeware tool to view, edit, modify, extract, copy metadata of various formats. +
Web-based EXIF data viewer +
Metaproducts offers several commercial capture and off-line browsing tools. +
Micr’Olonys is the software solution for long-term passive digital archiving on film and paper. +
Use the Word 2003 Redaction Add-in to hide text within Microsoft Office Word 2003 documents. +
With this add-in you can permanently remove hidden data and collaboration data, such as change tracking and comments, from Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint files. +
The Minimum Preservation Tool (MPT) can be used to create an interim preservation storage environment for files awaiting preservation in a longer term repository solution. It supports checksum generation, fixity checking, and replication across two or more storage nodes. +
Chrome extension that uses Memento to indicate that a page a user is viewing on the live web has an archived copy and to give the user access to the copy +
A movie player that runs on many systems, supports a wide range of formats and supports a wide range of output drivers +
Multivalent works on digital documents research and development. +
myExperiment is an online social networking service aimed at scientific researchers; the site fosters collaboration by allowing members to share scientific workflows, experiment plans, and other digital objects. +
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NARA File Analyzer and Metadata Harvester allows a user to analyze the contents of a file system or external drive and generates statistics about the contents of the contained directories. +
NARA complete Preservation Plan collection for all their object types, requesting your interaction. +
NARA Video Frame Analyzer analyzes technical properties of individual frames of a video file in order to detect quality issues within digitized video files. +
The "Levels of Digital Preservation" are a tiered set of recommendations for how organizations should begin to build or enhance their digital preservation activities. +
Nesstar suite is an online publishing platform for organisations wishing to share datasets both internally and with the wider web. +
A version of [http://coptr.digipres.org/Nice_Opaque_Identifiers_%28NOID%29 NOID] in Ruby +
The NSRL provides a large data set of metadata on computer files which can be used to identify the files and their provenance +
This is a presrvation tool +
Tool for METS/ALTO validation and quality control +
NetarchiveSuite is a web archiving software package designed to plan, schedule and run web harvests of parts of the Internet. +
Identifiers management tool to generate, bind and resolve different kinds of identifiers +
Practical digital preservation training for beginners +
Process/module manager for Windows, with features such as Kill/Resume/Suspend thread of a process and unload DLL files +
NutchWAX is software for indexing ARC files (archived Web sites gathered using Heritrix) for full text search. +
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Open Computer Forensics Architecture is a modular computer forensics framework. +
ODF Validator is a tool that validates OpenDocument files and checks them for certain conformance criteria. +
An RDF based list of basic RDM infrastructure components to make this infrastructure more visible and easier to identify +
officerparser.py is a python script that parses the format of OLE compound documents used by Microsoft Office applications. +
An open source tool for accessing and exploring web archives through emulated legacy browsers. +
Omeka is a free open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. +
Plugin for Omeka to assign ARK identifiers +
Ontrack EasyRecovery software products offer home users or businesses complete solutions for their data recovery, file repair and disk diagnostic needs. +
Ontrack Eraser software is an easy-to-use, highly flexible data erasure tool that erases all traces of data stored on a targeted media - ensuring that sensitive information does not fall into the wrong hands. +
OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. +
This tool is for video conversion, splitting and editing. +
OpenDOAR is a simple, web-based tool that guides repository administrators through the process of creating basic policies for the submission, re-use, and preservation of digital materials. +
For dealing with messy data, cleaning it and transforming it +
OpenVZ is container-based virtualization for Linux. +
The OpenWMS is a platform-independent, open source, web-accessible system that can be used as a standalone application or integrated with other repository architectures by a wide range of organizations. +
The goal for this project is to provide translators to allow for interoperability between applications based on ODF (OpenDocument) 1. +
Collates information into a CSV from log files for a batch optical media rip +
Outside In Technology is a suite of software development kits (SDKs) that provides developers with a comprehensive solution to access, transform and control the contents of over 500 unstructured file formats. +
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software library that supports the mapping between identifiers and filepaths according to the Pairtree Curation Microservices Specification. +
Tools for parsing and analysing PDF documents +
PDF/A Manager is a PDF/A (ISO 19005) validation and conversion software. +
PDWIPE (Physical Drive WIPE) is a standalone DOS utility to wipe (zero) an entire physical hard drive. +
A tool to capture contextual information in a sheer curation scenario +
Plato is a preservation-planning tool for organisations charged with safeguarding digital materials. +
The PREMIS Utility is a graphical program used to generate PREMIS metadata records for use in digital preservation systems and digital asset management systems in JSON and XML format, and attempts to cover gaps not programmatically generated by system logs. +
Output DROID compatible file format signature files using PRONOM syntax +
View, create, edit, and validate Swiss archival packages +
Passware software recovers or resets passwords for Windows, Word , Excel, QuickBooks, Access, Acrobat, and more than 180 document types. +
pdfaPilot: Conversion of documents and emails into robust, searchable PDF or PDF/A files +
Pearl Crescent Page Saver is an extension for Mozilla Firefox that lets you capture images of web pages, including Flash content. +
peepdf is a Python tool to explore PDF files in order to find out if the file can be harmful or not. +
A tool that captures, stores, plays-back and provides a new URL for web citation. Built and maintained at the Harvard Law School Library. +
PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. +
PhotoRescue is a picture and data recovery solution for digital film - sd cards, compact flash, memory sticks, microdrive, etc. +
PREMIS in METS Toolbox was developed to support the implementation of PREMIS in the METS container format. +
PowerISO is a powerful CD/DVD image file processing tool, which allows you to open, extract, create, edit, compress, encrypt, split and convert ISO files, and mount these files with internal virtual drive. +
A tool for generating an OAIS SIP for digital preservation. It produces METS document that contains metadata for digital preservation. +
Preservica is a complete OAIS Digital Preservation system available on the cloud (hosted in US, EU, CA or AUS) and on-premise. It is trusted by over 1000 organisations across 5 continents to preserve collections both large (>6Pb) and small (few 100kb). +
Prodiscover provides a set of features and toolkits for Computer Forensics and Incident Response +
Blacklight is a free and open source ruby-on-rails based discovery interface (a. +
Proofpoint Enterprise Archive is a SaaS email archiving solution that addresses three key challenges eDiscovery, regulatory compliance and email storage management without the headaches of managing archiving in-house. +
FLAG (Forensic and Log Analysis GUI) is an advanced forensic tool for the analysis of large volumes of log files and forensic investigations. +
A lightweight DPX file format validator. +
Library for working with XMP metadata, as well as reading/writing XMP metadata stored in many different file formats +
This is a Python implementation of the checkm specification. +
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QGIS is a Free and Open Source GIS application that supports a wide range of raster and vector spatial data types. +
QPDF is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files +
View virtually all the files and e-mail attachments you need, instantly without purchasing numerous software programs. +
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RAID is a relational database used to record key pieces of information and to quickly identify links among people, places, businesses, financial accounts, telephone numbers, and other investigative information. +
rARC is a distributed system that enables Internet users to provide storage space from their computers to replicate small parts of the archived data stored in the central repository of the Web archive. +
Review, Appraisal, and Triage of Mail (RATOM) is software to assist archives and other collecting organizations with email analysis, selection, and appraisal tasks +
The Revision Control System (RCS) manages multiple revisions of files. +
Controlled renaming of file collections +
RMCAS is an assessment tool for organisations wishing to map their current records management infrastructure against community best-practice. +
Migrates databases to an XML schema, DBML. Can then provide access by dumping DBML to MySQL and showing it in phpMyAdmin. +
The RapidRedact product range provides fast, easy to use redaction tools for irreversibly blanking out (redacting) selected information, author's changes and hidden data from all electronic document types. +
A file audit and comparison tool using Microsoft Excel and VBA. +
ReDBox and Mint are two complimentary applications designed to create, store, and provide access to research metadata. +
ReactOS is a free and open-source operating system for personal computers intended to be binary-compatible with computer programs and device drivers made for Windows Server 2003 and later versions of Windows. +
ReaderMeter is a web-based service that compiles readership information about scientific content to create an estimate of the content's community impact. +
Recollections is a free open source platform for generating and customizing views (interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds) that allow scholars, librarians, and curators to explore digital collection. +
Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a CD or USB boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. +
Provides Windows desktop and server redaction of PDF, Word, scanned TIFF images. Find, black out and remove content within documents, images or drawings. +
Regshot is an open-source (GPL) registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one - done after doing system changes or installing a new software product. +
Removes empty directories +
The ResCarta Tools software empowers users to create non-proprietary digital objects with LOC standard METS, MODS, MIX and AudioMD metadata from existing TIFF, JPEG, PDF and WAV data through user-friendly interfaces. +
ResearchGate is an online professional network for scientists and researchers, particularly employed by those wishing to follow and track the publication outputs of others in their field. +
Restorer Ultimate offers data recovery software. +
RHash (Recursive Hasher) is a console utility for computing and verifying hash sums of files. +
rocfl is a command line utility for interacting with OCFL repositories on the local filesystem or in S3. +
Ex Libris Rosetta enables institutions to preserve and provide access to the collections in their care. +
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Policy-based replication and Auditing of LOCKSS networks. +
Social Feed Manager is open source software that provides a web interface to enable users to harvest social media data and web resources from Twitter and other social media platforms. +
SIARD Suite is a freeware tool for the conversion of contents of relations databases into the SIARD format. +
SIARDexcerpt is a Java-based application that searches and extracts individual records of SIARD files. +
Plugin for QGIS. Fetches data from Wikidata and other Linked Data SPARQL endpoints and adds a new layer in a QGIS project. Just insert a SPARQL query for Geo-Items and get a new vector layer into QGIS. +
The DICE Storage Resource Broker (SRB) supports shared collections that can be distributed across multiple organizations and heterogeneous storage systems. +
SafeBack is used to create mirror-image (bit-stream) backup files of hard disks or to make a mirror-image copy of an entire hard disk drive or partition. +
Python tool to support the overtly "safe" copying of files from one location to another. Uses fixity, and OS file system metadata. +
SalvageData Recovery software tools and products are designed to empower both IT professionals and average personal computer users with all the functionalities and features needed to successfully salvage and recover data files from any kind of logical data loss situation. +